### BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION WASHINGTON, D.C.

Agreements Adopted by the Traffic Conferences of the International Air Transport Association OST-2011-XXXX

APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF AGREEMENTS BY THE INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION

6 May 2011 Communications with respect to this document should be sent to

Douglas E. Lavin Regional Vice President – North America International Air Transport Association 1776 K.St. N.W. #12 th 

### Floor Washington DC 20006

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Summary DOCKET: OST-2011-XXXX US DOT ORDER: pending

Date: 6 May 2011

Filing fee / IATA Acct: USD 61 / 0000-06

US/UST involved: No

End of Government Filing Period: 16 April 2010

Meeting site, date: Mail Vote 634

Intended effective date: 1 July 2010

Agreement: Mail Vote 634 TC31 South Pacific South West Pacific - TC1 (except Canada, USA) Composite Resolution 011b e-Tariffs, 8 – 23 March 2010 Intended Effective date: for travel on/after 1 July 2010

(Memo 1613)

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APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF AGREEMENT

Pursuant to statements submitted by Member airlines of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the undersigned has been constitu ted to be their attorney-in-fact for filing with the Department of Transportation copi es of agreements adopted by the IATA Traffic Conferences.
On their behalf, and pursuant to Sections 41308 and 41309 of Title 49 of the United States Code and Parts 303.03, 303.05 and 303.30 (c) of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations, I am filing with the Department this applicat ion for approval of an IATA agreement.
This agreement and related factual a nd explanatory material and documentation required by 14 C.F.R. 303.31 and Department and Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) precedent are contained in the IATA Traffic C onference documentation summarized above.
This agreement arises from the continuing process of Tariff Coordinating Conferences and was developed in the context of prior Depar tment and CAB rulings addressing related resolutions which reflected regulatory and market conditions then in effect. Thus, the present agreement should be viewed as part of a dynam ic process of IATA Member airline adjustment to governmental and economic factors.
On previous occasions, the Department ha s found such agreements to be consistent with the public interest when they do not result in fares or rates that are unlawful or injurious to competition in the markets at issue. A pproval of the present agreement would not yield fares or rates that are unlawful or injurious to competition. Moreover, approval of this agreement, which reflects compromises among the differing economic and social philosophies of the many nations whose airlines are parties, will advance the public interest in maintaining good aviation relations with other countries.
We request early approval by the Department of the for egoing agreement, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 41309, and the grant of full antitrust immunity, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 41308.
The conferral of full antitrust immunity wo uld be in the public interest and necessary for the transaction to proceed. This agreement is a product of the IATA Tariff Coordinating Conferences which the Department found to be anticompetitive but nevertheless approved and immunized in Order 85-5-32 (May 6, 1985) on foreign policy and comity grounds because such action is necessary to achieve the serious transportation need of maintaining good aviation relations with other countries and these benefits are not obtainable by reasonably available means having materi ally less anticompetitive effects.
This agreement concerns fares or rates between non-U.S. points and thus has at most indirect application in foreign air transportati on. The U.S. authorities have recognized (e.g, Order 79-8-194, 30 August 1979) that the interests of sovereign nations in the conditions governing air transportation between them greatly exceed any that the U.S. might have by reason of U.S. airline, citizen or shipper partici pation. This agreement is not adverse to the public interest or in violation of the Act and, therefore, should be granted full immunity.
Respectfully submitted

___________________________ Douglas Lavin Regional Vice President – North America International Air Transport Association

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

A copy of this application or a summary not ice thereof has been served by first class or priority mail on the following person

Chief, Transportation, Energy & Agriculture Section Antitrust Division Department of Justice Washington D.C. 20530

________________________________ Douglas E. Lavin

6 May 2011 Date ServedInternational Air Transport Association

Route de l’Aéroport 33 PO Box 416 CH - 1215 Geneva 15 Airport Switzerland Tel: +41 22 770 2842 Fax +41 22 770 2896 CR www.iata.org E-Mail: tariffs@iata.org 24 March 2010

MEMORANDUM

PTC COMP 1613

TO: Members Participating in Tariff Coordinating Conferences

FROM: Manager, Interline Tariffs

SUBJECT: Mail Vote 634 TC31 South Pacific South West Pacific - TC1 (except Canada, USA) Composite Resolution 011b e-Tariffs, 8 – 23 March 2010 Intended Effective date: for travel on/after 1 July 2010

R ESOLUTION
- A DOPTED
Attached is PTC COMP Resolution 011b which was amended using the e-Tariffs process for an intended effective date of 1 July 2010.
The filing period for the attached Resolution ends 16 April 2010 . Members are reminded of their obligations under Resolutions 001 and 006 to advise this office by the end of the filing period whether approval by their Government aut horities is required and, if so, to accomplish the necessary filing formalities. The effect ive date will be declared in accordance with Resolutions 001 and 006, when all the known necessary Government approvals have been received.

Cristina Rotor Manager, Tariff Solutions & Distribution IDFS PassengerPTC COMP 1613 e-Tariffs, March10 RESOLUTION ADOPTED

PASSENGER TARIFF COORDINATING CONFERENCE

TC31 SOUTH WEST PACIFIC – TC1 (EXCEPT CANADA, USA)

MAIL VOTE 634

e-TARIFFS, 8 – 23 MARCH 2010

EFFECTIVE DATE: 1 JULY 2010

RESO TITLE COMMENTS RD

011b Global Indicators Amending 1PTC COMP 1613 e-Tariffs, March10 TC31 GLOBAL INDICATORS

PTC31(MV634) 011b Amended

Filing Period Begins 24 March 2010 Intended Effectiveness 1 July 2010 Ends 16 April 2010 Expiry Indefinite

Type B

RESOLVED that, for application the TC31 South Pacific subarea Resolution 011b is amended

1 paragraph 1) c) is amended

c) fares may only be used for the Global Indicator for which they are established. The itinerary within a fare component will attract a Global Indicator as follows

Fare Component GI Routing Restriction

Between TC1 and TC3 (except South West Pacific) PA not applicable for routings on nonstop services between Canada / USA and South Asian Subcontinent

Between TC 1 (except Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela) and South West Pacific PA not applicable for routings on nonstop services between Canada / USA and South Asian Subcontinent

Between Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela and South West Pacific PA not via North America/ applicable for transpacific routings that do not qualify as PN

Between Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela and South West Pacific PN must be via North America but not via TC3 except South West Pacific